[PLUG] Lightweight, low-end portable with linux

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Fri Nov 6 20:01:28 UTC 2009


On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:52:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Lightweight, low-end portable with linux
> 
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at the MSI Wind U210. Looks sweet! Don't have one in hand yet.
>> But the parts spec looks good. I'm not a huge fan of the ATI video card,
>> but it'll work. It has an ralink WIFI card, which I've never tried myself,
>> but I see posts that say it works.
>
> Carlos,
>
>   Looks ideal. I assume you've checked that various linux distributions
> install; xubuntu will probably detect and self-configure for the hardware.
>
>> Also waiting to see if the 2-proc version will come out in time for
>> spring semester. It's on the MSI website, but I can't find it on any
>> retail websites yet. I think it's the Wind U230.
>
>   We don't need more than the single CPU.
>
>   What I need now is one more paying client and we'll get one.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rich

Ha ha funny. No, I only considered gentoo. But I did read a post on
the ralink card that was written by a debian user. It said that the
card didn't work initially, but an update to the latest debian (with a
2.6.30 kernel, the key ingredient) fixed it up proper-like. And the
ATI video card will work with fglrx, which is nice because older cards
don't. The CPU conforms to the GCC -march=k8 architecture like all of
AMD's 64-bit offerings.

Carlos



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